CONTENTS
Analytics
Cover image: Slide with microtome section of a rat brain is entered into the HYPERION II infrared microscope. It features FT-IR and IR laser imaging capabilities and provides ultimate flexibility for pharmaceutical applications like failure analysis, API distribution evaluation and tissue characterisation.
How is nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy improving drug development?
How is flow cytometry, a powerful technology in the CGT field, being used for analytics?
Digital
How is Basel helping to facilitate innovations in AI and ML within the pharma sphere?
Why is cloud computing in drug discovery and manufacturing popular, and what myths need to be dispelled around its use?
How can pharma teams achieve a ‘customer-first’ mindset in order to improve their digital services?
How can AI be used most effectively for pharmaceutical development?
IPT and Ronen Vengosh of Egnyte discuss cloud software in companies, and how drug development and clinical trial management will improve with its use
Data quality governance is as important as it is simple to achieve, even within a large company
Manufacturing
How could a proposed scale for different binder-diluent ratios serve as a ‘guiding torch’ for formulators?
What is involved with high-titre CLD platform development, and how are novel technologies aiding the process?
What are nanodrug carriers, and how can their manufacturing be better regulated?
Improvements in tablet press performance for continuous manufacturing are helping to streamline the process
IPT talks to Richard Stedman about how automated machinery is leading the charge in innovating pharmaceutical production
Lab Automation
IPT talks to Bob Voelkner at LabVantage Solutions about what it takes to succeed with AI and his particular advice for getting started
How can ‘plug & play’ laboratories help drug developers streamline the process for a more efficient system?
Regulars
Summer begins with a fresh look at the old in pharma tech
54. Events Index
IPT looks forward to exciting events in the coming months
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